![]() ![]() Notably, I will employ Lacan’s ‘four discourses’ to assess the various roles and positions that determine its basic structure. To bring its cultural relevance to the fore, I will approach the novel from a Lacanian angle. Indeed, I will argue that Inferno may help us to ‘assess the present’ by pointing out what it is we find so intriguing and uncanny about virology and its model organism of choice: the potentially lethal virus. This article reads Dan Brown’s recently published best-seller Inferno not as a cinematic techno-thriller, but as a ‘science novel’: a literary document that allows us to discern some of the tensions, paradoxes and inner dynamics of virology as a contemporary (‘hyper-scientific’) biomedical research field. ![]()
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